WOMENS CRUELTY TO WOMEN
By Olivia Phiri
Sharp is the word that comes to mind at the moment. Wondering why? Really its something I rarely consider, the sharpness of an item unless am about to cut tomato with a knife or something.
Men unlike women often find it easy to compare habits to women’s behavior, like don’t be shy like a woman or weak like a woman, it just shows stupidity and lack of vocabulary. Now to think that a woman would criticize another woman for defending such a statement is ironic and rather just not sharp.
Not clever at all. Its like cutting a tomato with a blunt knife from its tip. Have we women stopped to consider what the other sex thinks of us when we do not stand up together, for each other? They call us disorganized and find it easy to call us names.
Who can we say is to blame for such behavior, our mothers and their mothers and the list is endless. It is the sins of the mothers. Women find it so easy to humiliate, subject torture or ridicule and inflict pain on each other than they would to the opposite sex.
In short women are cruel to women.
This is in relation to the Post’s column war that has recently been wedged against Sara Longwe who stood for women’s intergrity and refused to be called cowardice, because women by nature are not. Next a woman from the Copperbelt, Mrs Mulenga Phiri if I have the name right tells Sara to appreciate her femininity. So this Mulenga woman believes that she is cowardice and weak, that is her own judgement of her capabilities as a person but not respresent ing the entire women folk.
Women through history have been known to be defenders of families, protectors of husbands, with unknown strength when giving birth or taking care of their children.
I have frankly read this reactions over and over as a woman and fellow activist in the fight for equity, equal gender representation and justice for all, I say women support one another.
Why cant we wake up from the slumber of being objects to become intelligent loving beings that would appreciate success within and among our own sex?
By Olivia Phiri
Sharp is the word that comes to mind at the moment. Wondering why? Really its something I rarely consider, the sharpness of an item unless am about to cut tomato with a knife or something.
Men unlike women often find it easy to compare habits to women’s behavior, like don’t be shy like a woman or weak like a woman, it just shows stupidity and lack of vocabulary. Now to think that a woman would criticize another woman for defending such a statement is ironic and rather just not sharp.
Not clever at all. Its like cutting a tomato with a blunt knife from its tip. Have we women stopped to consider what the other sex thinks of us when we do not stand up together, for each other? They call us disorganized and find it easy to call us names.
Who can we say is to blame for such behavior, our mothers and their mothers and the list is endless. It is the sins of the mothers. Women find it so easy to humiliate, subject torture or ridicule and inflict pain on each other than they would to the opposite sex.
In short women are cruel to women.
This is in relation to the Post’s column war that has recently been wedged against Sara Longwe who stood for women’s intergrity and refused to be called cowardice, because women by nature are not. Next a woman from the Copperbelt, Mrs Mulenga Phiri if I have the name right tells Sara to appreciate her femininity. So this Mulenga woman believes that she is cowardice and weak, that is her own judgement of her capabilities as a person but not respresent ing the entire women folk.
Women through history have been known to be defenders of families, protectors of husbands, with unknown strength when giving birth or taking care of their children.
I have frankly read this reactions over and over as a woman and fellow activist in the fight for equity, equal gender representation and justice for all, I say women support one another.
Why cant we wake up from the slumber of being objects to become intelligent loving beings that would appreciate success within and among our own sex?
posted by Olivia Phiri at 6:10 AM
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